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The <cartoon-network> element contains one or more <show> elements.

Each <show> element has a unique id attribute and a category attribute. The category attribute identifies each show as either a "series" (i.e. on a regular schedule), a "movie", a "special" (e.g. a holiday show not categorized as a movie) or a "cartoonolio" (a series run back to back for two hours or more).

Each <show> element contains the following elements in order:

• The show's <name>
• The year it was <created>
• The <studio> responsible for its creation
• Its television industry <rating>
• An optional choice of either a <star-list> or single <star> element
• A short <description> of the show
• Its <schedule> during a seven day span (typically Sunday through the following Saturday)
• An optional <note> that provides a brief commentary on the show
• Zero or more <fanclub> elements
• Zero or more <website> elements

The <show> element contains plain text.

The <created> element must be a year between and including 1927-2002.

The <studio> element contains plain text.

The television industry <rating> is a choice of one of the following:

• TV-G (General audiences)
• TV-Y (Suitable for young children)
• TV-Y7 (Suitable for ages 7 and up)
• TV-PG (Parental guidance)
• TV-14 (Unsuitable for children under 14)
• TV-MA (Mature audiences only)

The <star> element contains plain text. It has a role attribute that offers a choice of either "major", "minor" or "guest" value.

The <description> element contains plain text.

The <schedule> element contains a <week> element, one or more <day> elements and one or more <time> elements.

The <week> element contains a <begin-date> element and an <end-date> element. These two elements have a data type of "date". The <day> element offers a choice of one of the following values: M, TU, W, TH, F, SA, SU and optionally a hyphen followed by either TH or F to indicate a series running Monday through Thursday or Monday through Friday. Each <day> element is followed by one or more <time> elements.

Each <time> element requires two digits, a colon, two digits, a hyphen, two digits, a colon, two digits and then a choice of a or p to indicate the ending time as "a.m." or "p.m.".

The <note> element contains mixed content (text and elements). The elements contained in <note> include <month>, <day>, <year>, <time> and <award> All of these elements contain plain text. The time elements (<month>, <day>, <year>, and <time>) occur one or more times.

The <award> element occurs zero or more times.

The <fanclub> element contains the <club-name> and either an <email> address (in plain text) or <street>, <city>, <state>, and <zipcode> elements. The <street> and <city> elements contain plain text, the <state> must be two uppercase letters, and the <zipcode> must be five digits followed (optionally) by a hyphen and four more digits.

The <website> element contains plain text.